Environmental Graffiti

The Onset of the Monsoon

In the west, the phenomenon that is the monsoon is hard to grasp because unless seen with one’s own eyes, so much rain at one time is just hard to imagine. Monsoon tourists describe it as a wall of rain or a sheet of rain – think of a giant tap suddenly being turned on to drench parts of the world. And mull over the fact that one good monsoon day in Mumbai, for example, can mean dousing the city in 800 mm of rain – Munich’s annual rainfall! Here’s the spectacle in pictures.

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